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I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh
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Vivien Leigh
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 5
Died: 1967
Died: July 8
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Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Darjeeling (India)
Vivien Leigh
Lady Olivier
Vivian Mary Hartley
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Lady Olivier
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Fencing
Dancing
More quotes by Vivien Leigh
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
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One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
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Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
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I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
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English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
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My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
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You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.
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I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
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Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.
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Life is too short to work so hard.
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I always know my lines.
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I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
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In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.
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